Nancy Holt / Inside Outside
Nancy Holt / Inside Outside accompanies the most expansive exhibition of Nancy Holt’s work to date, studying Holt’s consistent interest in the relationships between interior and exterior worlds.
Over the course of fifty years, Nancy Holt’s rich output spanned concrete poetry, audio, film and video, photography, drawings, room-sized installations, earthworks, and public sculpture. Nancy Holt / Inside Outside details her unique and significant contributions, situating an important female voice within the narratives of land art and conceptual art.
Experiences of being ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ guide this publication’s essays and interviews, which are richly illustrated with previously unseen images. Holt herself was an insider and an outsider: she was a key member of the earth, land, and conceptual art movements, yet her work is far lesser known than that of her male peers—a situation this publication strives to amend.
Initiating her art practice in 1966 with concrete poetry, Holt soon expanded her ideas into other media and the landscape. Through each of the mediums she worked in, Holt explored how we understand our place in the world by investigating perception and site within and outside of traditional museum contexts. In the mid-1970s Holt completed her most influential earthwork, Sun Tunnels, an artwork central to the definition of land art. Inside Outside features images of Sun Tunnels taken by the leading American photographer Richard Misrach in 1988.
Rigorous documentation of Holt’s work, as well as new contributions by key scholars, previously unseen photoworks and drawings, and a revealing, never-before-published “self-interview” by the artist bring her work into far fuller context than has seen before. Karen Di Franco’s essay “The Horizon of the Text” pays attention to Holt’s concrete poetry, while James Nisbet’s “Moving West” focusses on Holt’s travels through the United States. Lisa Le Feuvre brings an overview to Holt’s five decades of artistic production, and with Katarina Pierre discusses Holt’s investigation of place, land, and perception.
Published on occasion of the 2022 exhibition Nancy Holt / Inside Outside at Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
Authors
Karen Di Franco, Lisa Le Feuvre, James Nisbet, Katarina Pierre
Editors
Lisa Le Feuvre, Katarina Pierre
Specifications
Monacelli Press, 2022
ISBN 9781580935975
Hardback
224 pages
254 × 190 mm / 10 × 7 1/2 in.
English
$50
Nancy Holt / Inside Outside accompanies the most expansive exhibition of Nancy Holt’s work to date, studying Holt’s consistent interest in the relationships between interior and exterior worlds.
Over the course of fifty years, Nancy Holt’s rich output spanned concrete poetry, audio, film and video, photography, drawings, room-sized installations, earthworks, and public sculpture. Nancy Holt / Inside Outside details her unique and significant contributions, situating an important female voice within the narratives of land art and conceptual art.
Experiences of being ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ guide this publication’s essays and interviews, which are richly illustrated with previously unseen images. Holt herself was an insider and an outsider: she was a key member of the earth, land, and conceptual art movements, yet her work is far lesser known than that of her male peers—a situation this publication strives to amend.
Initiating her art practice in 1966 with concrete poetry, Holt soon expanded her ideas into other media and the landscape. Through each of the mediums she worked in, Holt explored how we understand our place in the world by investigating perception and site within and outside of traditional museum contexts. In the mid-1970s Holt completed her most influential earthwork, Sun Tunnels, an artwork central to the definition of land art. Inside Outside features images of Sun Tunnels taken by the leading American photographer Richard Misrach in 1988.
Rigorous documentation of Holt’s work, as well as new contributions by key scholars, previously unseen photoworks and drawings, and a revealing, never-before-published “self-interview” by the artist bring her work into far fuller context than has seen before. Karen Di Franco’s essay “The Horizon of the Text” pays attention to Holt’s concrete poetry, while James Nisbet’s “Moving West” focusses on Holt’s travels through the United States. Lisa Le Feuvre brings an overview to Holt’s five decades of artistic production, and with Katarina Pierre discusses Holt’s investigation of place, land, and perception.
Published on occasion of the 2022 exhibition Nancy Holt / Inside Outside at Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
Authors
Karen Di Franco, Lisa Le Feuvre, James Nisbet, Katarina Pierre
Editors
Lisa Le Feuvre, Katarina Pierre
Specifications
Monacelli Press, 2022
ISBN 9781580935975
Hardback
224 pages
254 × 190 mm / 10 × 7 1/2 in.
English
$50
Nancy Holt / Inside Outside accompanies the most expansive exhibition of Nancy Holt’s work to date, studying Holt’s consistent interest in the relationships between interior and exterior worlds.
Over the course of fifty years, Nancy Holt’s rich output spanned concrete poetry, audio, film and video, photography, drawings, room-sized installations, earthworks, and public sculpture. Nancy Holt / Inside Outside details her unique and significant contributions, situating an important female voice within the narratives of land art and conceptual art.
Experiences of being ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ guide this publication’s essays and interviews, which are richly illustrated with previously unseen images. Holt herself was an insider and an outsider: she was a key member of the earth, land, and conceptual art movements, yet her work is far lesser known than that of her male peers—a situation this publication strives to amend.
Initiating her art practice in 1966 with concrete poetry, Holt soon expanded her ideas into other media and the landscape. Through each of the mediums she worked in, Holt explored how we understand our place in the world by investigating perception and site within and outside of traditional museum contexts. In the mid-1970s Holt completed her most influential earthwork, Sun Tunnels, an artwork central to the definition of land art. Inside Outside features images of Sun Tunnels taken by the leading American photographer Richard Misrach in 1988.
Rigorous documentation of Holt’s work, as well as new contributions by key scholars, previously unseen photoworks and drawings, and a revealing, never-before-published “self-interview” by the artist bring her work into far fuller context than has seen before. Karen Di Franco’s essay “The Horizon of the Text” pays attention to Holt’s concrete poetry, while James Nisbet’s “Moving West” focusses on Holt’s travels through the United States. Lisa Le Feuvre brings an overview to Holt’s five decades of artistic production, and with Katarina Pierre discusses Holt’s investigation of place, land, and perception.
Published on occasion of the 2022 exhibition Nancy Holt / Inside Outside at Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
Authors
Karen Di Franco, Lisa Le Feuvre, James Nisbet, Katarina Pierre
Editors
Lisa Le Feuvre, Katarina Pierre
Specifications
Monacelli Press, 2022
ISBN 9781580935975
Hardback
224 pages
254 × 190 mm / 10 × 7 1/2 in.
English
$50